Arms company drops plan to test bombs at Scottish world heritage site
by Severin Carrell Scotland editor from Environment | The Guardian on (#6Q6CC)
Firm says it had no idea proposed test site on Lib Dem peer's land included part of Strathmore peatlands in Flow Country
A British arms company has abandoned plans to detonate fragmentation bombs in the middle of the Flow Country world heritage site, the Guardian can reveal.
The company, Overwatch, asked the Civil Aviation Authority this month for permission to carry out live fire testing" of anti-personnel bombs dropped by drones on to land owned by the Liberal Democrat peer John Thurso.
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